Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Soviet leaders have expressed no readiness , however , to withdraw Soviet base facilities in neighbouring Eastern bloc states to compensate for those they wish removed from Greece or for the adoption of neutrality by Greece . |
| 32 | Subject indexing is generally carried out by those familiar with the discipline definitions , for reasons connected with the publication of classified bibliographies , or for the arrangement of documents in libraries , information centres , catalogues and databases . |
| 33 | Intuitively , one might claim that the need for completeness which is satisfied when are angry is added to residents in ( 2 ) is of the same order as that experienced when waiting for , say , the splash of a stone thrown out over the sea , or for the arrival of food in one 's mouth when one has watched it being prepared . |
| 34 | It would be nice to know who these nobles were ; or even to know whether the chronicler 's choice of phrase was due to ignorance or a desire for brevity or for the sake of discretion . |
| 35 | We might highlight the ‘ topicality ’ or ‘ relevance ’ of J's first contribution by asking how K might have reacted if J had talked about one of his brothers , or about the type of work to be had in Australia , or training to be a brain surgeon . |
| 36 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 37 | These she defines as ‘ background knowledge about the content area of a text — for example , a text about washing clothes , celebrating New Year 's Eve in Hawaii , building a canoe , or about the economy of Mexico , the history of Canada , problems of nuclear breeder reactors , etc. , ( Carrell 1983 : 84 ) . |
| 38 | There are jests about administrative gaffes ( 'overtrousers ' mistyped as ‘ overt rousers ’ ) or about the craziness of bureaucracy ( the staff have no order forms because they have run out of order forms with which to order them ) . |
| 39 | The muscles are absolutely rigid , proof that the grasp occurred at or about the moment of death . |
| 40 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 41 | They also remarked on the frequent riotous assemblies that seemed to take place in or about the city of Glasgow . |
| 42 | Revolutionary ideas in science , such as the idea of evolution by natural selection ; quantum physics itself ; plate tectonics , or the genetic code , can occur through the action of single , high-influence ideas , or through the summation of numbers of small , accretionary pieces of evidence . |
| 43 | In a sense large firms are supposed to act as financial intermediaries for their related suppliers through for example the provision of trade credit or through the re-sale of capital equipment . |
| 44 | The ability to measure accurately , record and understand the relevance of patient/client data obtained by personal observation or through the use of equipment . |
| 45 | Genetic dissection of the immune system in this way , or through the use of mutants with different specific defects of immune function , could prove valuable in studying the influence of individual genes in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease . |
| 46 | Thirdly , the family constitutes a major determinant of consumer behaviour , whether in terms of its influence on the individual , direct family purchasing , or through the movement of individuals across the family life cycle . |
| 47 | Both these formulations are consistent with the definitions of pragmatics as " meaning minus semantics " or as the contribution of context to language understanding . |
| 48 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 49 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 50 | If this hypothesis is proved it suggests that ‘ physiological ’ changes in matrix composition may be utilised in health to configure the developing hepatocyte either directly , or as the result of sequestration of particular growth factors and cytokines , the type of which would alter according to the specific matrix components . |
| 51 | Younger people are more likely to identify health as being physically active or as the absence of symptoms ( i.e. never being ill ) than older people . |
| 52 | This problem appears in a more or less acute form in many countries whose borders were arbitrarily set by colonial rulers or as the outcome of wars . |
| 53 | As personal traits and gifts , as the fruits of experience or as the outcome of maturity they remain essentially a private matter , not amenable to management training but open to approaches which might be based on good practice in counselling or on well-handled programmes about the development of interpersonal skills . |
| 54 | From this they concluded that a rogue suitcase could have been ‘ sent to Pan Am 103 either before or after the unloading of Air Malta 180 ’ . |
| 55 | The date on the audit report should be the date on which the auditors sign the report , which should be on or after the date of board approval . |
| 56 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 57 | They can select a time before or after the passing of property . |
| 58 | This point has been shown again and again ; it is clear from the excellent descriptions of production activities which we have of peoples such as the Tikopia of Polynesia described by Firth [ 1939 ] or of the Bemba of Africa by Audrey Richards [ 1939 ] . |
| 59 | Dexter noticed that she had made no mention of the murder weapon being a pair of scissors or of the discovery of blood in a wash-basin near where the body was found . |
| 60 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |